Role of Minocycline in First Episode Psychosis

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the addition of minocycline or placebo to treatment as usual (TAU): 1. prevents the accumulation of negative symptoms and intellectual decline following a first episode of non-affective psychosis; and 2. whether minocycline stabilizes the efficacy of antipsychotics.

Timeline

Start

2006-05

Primary completion

2008-03

Completion

2008-03

Publications

• Background Chen M, Ona VO, Li M, Ferrante RJ, Fink KB, Zhu S, Bian J, Guo L, Farrell LA, Hersch SM, Hobbs W, Vonsattel JP, Cha JH, Friedlander RM. Minocycline inhibits caspase-1 and caspase-3 expression and delays mortality in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington disease. Nat Med. 2000 Jul;6(7):797-801. doi: 10.1038/77528.
• Background Gabrovska-Johnson VS, Scott M, Jeffries S, Thacker N, Baldwin RC, Burns A, Lewis SW, Deakin JF. Right-hemisphere encephalopathy in elderly subjects with schizophrenia: evidence from neuropsychological and brain imaging studies. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2003 Sep;169(3-4):367-75. doi: 10.1007/s00213-003-1524-9. Epub 2003 Jul 4.
• Background Yrjanheikki J, Tikka T, Keinanen R, Goldsteins G, Chan PH, Koistinaho J. A tetracycline derivative, minocycline, reduces inflammation and protects against focal cerebral ischemia with a wide therapeutic window. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Nov 9;96(23):13496-500. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.23.13496.
• Background Stirling J, White C, Lewis S, Hopkins R, Tantam D, Huddy A, Montague L. Neurocognitive function and outcome in first-episode schizophrenia: a 10-year follow-up of an epidemiological cohort. Schizophr Res. 2003 Dec 15;65(2-3):75-86. doi: 10.1016/s0920-9964(03)00014-8.
• Background Zhu S, Stavrovskaya IG, Drozda M, Kim BY, Ona V, Li M, Sarang S, Liu AS, Hartley DM, Wu DC, Gullans S, Ferrante RJ, Przedborski S, Kristal BS, Friedlander RM. Minocycline inhibits cytochrome c release and delays progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice. Nature. 2002 May 2;417(6884):74-8. doi: 10.1038/417074a.
• Background Denovan-Wright EM, Devarajan S, Dursun SM, Robertson HA. Maintained improvement with minocycline of a patient with advanced Huntington's disease. J Psychopharmacol. 2002 Dec;16(4):393-4. doi: 10.1177/026988110201600417.

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